Author: Marianna Iannaccone Publisher: ISBN: 9781716114977 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This books aims to demonstrate that John Florio, famous translator, teacher and lexicographer, was also a wizard in poetry, involved in the production of sonnets. Like an acrobat of words, jumping from the Italian Petrarchan sonnet to the English iambic pentameter, this book unveils a new, extraordinary side of Florio's multifaceted personality, a hint that his career as tutor, linguist, and translator was only a fragment of a much intriguing, gifted genius the world needs to recognise.
Author: Frances A. Yates Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521170745 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 376
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John Florio is best known to the present day for his great translation of Montaigne's Essays. To his contemporaries he was one of the most conspicuous figures of the literary and social cliques of the time. By her reconstruction of Florio's life and character, Frances Yates' 1934 text throws light upon the vexed question of his relations with Shakespeare.
Author: Hermann W. Haller Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442669756 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 857
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A Worlde of Wordes, the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, was published in 1598 by John Florio. One of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England, Florio was greatly responsible for the spreading of Italian letters and culture throughout educated English society. Especially important was Florio’s dictionary, which – thanks to its exuberant wealth of English definitions – made it initially possible for English readers to access Italy’s rich Renaissance literary and scientific culture. Award-winning author Hermann W. Haller has prepared the first critical edition of A Worlde of Wordes, which features 46,000 Italian entries – among them dialect forms, erotic terminology, colloquial phrases, and proverbs of the Italian language. Haller reveals Florio as a brilliant English translator and creative writer, as well as a grammarian and language teacher. His helpful critical commentary highlights Florio’s love of words and his life-long dedication to promoting Italian language and culture abroad.
Author: Marianna Iannaccone
Author: David M. Main
Author: Frances A. Yates
Author: Hermann W. Haller
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: David M. Main
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Author: Philip E. Blank
Author: John Buxton